The next morning, the king shrieked in horror. It startled everyone awake and ran to where the sound came from. The king's chambers, a positively big room. Biggest one in fact. Everyone ran, in jamies or in underwear or in uniform. The soldiers were still in thiers, crystal cards with ruby's engraved into them with as many hearts as thier skill in combat was. However, there was no Ace, nor king, nor Queen nor Knave of hearts.
As everyone hurried, the Slothouse who was more slouching, gave up and collapsed into a deep sleep.
"My Queen, my Queen, my beautiful Queen! Oh why..." The King wailed.
They got to the room, that was expectingly beautiful was the opposite! It was gray, and no furniture except for one uncomfortable mattress. The girls looked around the room, and the boys rushed to thier father's side. Rabuke noticed the girls' puzzled look.
"This room is a mood room. It changes its look depending on the owner's feelings, including colour, and furniture." He explained. The girls "oh"ed all at the same time.
After a diagnoses of the Castle's dark magic nurse, she confirmed a diagnosis.
"Everyone, unfortunately, The Queen has doppelganger symptoms. White, shiny hair, black eyes with moving white spirals and dead like skin." The nurse looked down, playing with her pink hair. When the girls looked at her closely, she resembled Lauren from school.
"She will also pose erratic behaviour, and since she is Queen, she has sworn her duty to perform as Queen to any extent of her health."
Everyone nodded. The nurse left the room and the King pondered, until finally...
"Kroaft! Girls! Boys!"
The seven of them lined up.
"I command you go find me the cure for doppelganger syndrome!" They nodded and left the castle. The room turned bright white and looked like a church.
"Im hoping..." he said after a while.
The Queen slowly began to move...
"Nurse!" Lynette called for the nurse and she appeared next to her.
"What do you need?" She asked.
"Is there a cure for doppelganger syndrome?" Joe asked; Since Lynette jumped back from the Nurse's sudden appearance.
The Nurse thought for a second, then nodded.
"The cure is of the soul potion, something of which can not be ordered, and many people die from trying to retrieve it for thier loved ones."
"Maybe the Duchess has some?" Kevin piped up, Catt leaning on him.
"You can ask her, but I wouldn't garuntee it." The nurse replied, and disappeared again, Lynette jumping back again.
Later, at The Duchess' shoe, as Kevin and Catt awaited outside (in absoloute fear of the Duchess' Cook of course,) The Duchess welcomed them all. And what was a cute itsy bitsy baby gray wolf, was now a huge, fine coated adult wolf.
"What the hell did you do to it?!" Nick exclaimed.
"Well, as I was making a fancy new beverage, Beo here stole the vial and drank every last drop and he was a grown wolf!" The Duchess explained.
"Duchy-poo, do you have a soul potion by any chance, duchy poo?" Joe said. The Duchess looked down, then up, her face white.
"No...and...I can't ever garuntee you one..." She said coldly.
"Why not?" Alison and Lynette asked.
The Duchess looked at them and sighed.
"My love, who's name I can't say without crying, was my assistant in potion ingredients. He wasn't a genius like I, in making potions, but he loved it when I asked him to bring me the ingredients I needed for something. With his help, I perfected many potions." The Duchess said. "But... then I asked him to go obtain the skirrel mushroom, a mushroom only found in the darkest parts of the Maddening Forest, where the Skirrel people live. He and I had no idea, that it was also, not far from Wocky mountains, where Jabberwockies live in thier natural sub-zero life choice. As he entered the forest, as silent as ever, they swarmed on him, and... and...ate him...alive."
Everyone looked down, saddened, watching the midget genius shed a tear, that her son caught on his tongue and nuzzled her.
"But, if I must...I will aid you, in your find of the mushroom, and I have the rest of the ingredients for the Soul Potion." She added.
"Its too dangerous!" Lynette said.
"Who said you were going, its too dangerous for you as well." Nick said, looking at Alison and Lynette.
"Not if we can help it!" ALison exclaimed.
"No, no." Joe said.
"The young ladies have potential my liege." The Duchess said. "Now if you would all shut the hell up and I'll give the girls some tools to help them."
The boys approached to protest, but the Duchess got two stickers saying "Shut up" in red and slapped them hard on thier mouths.
"Take that off and its going to hurt." The Duchess said and went into the kitchen and retrieved some weapons.
"For you, Alison, 'un, a pair of gouns." She said, handing Alison a pair of golden guns.
"For you, Lynette, 'un, the ice kwand." She added, handing Lynette a pretty fairy wand, that was ice cold, and the end had a pretty butterfly, with mist coming out of it.
"Finally, 'un, Catt, the Tigra Sword." She finished, handing the black and orange sword to Catt. It was really heavy!
After looking at thier weapons at each other, as The Duchess went for some honey tea, Lynette swapped with Catt, and Alison swapped with Lynette.
When the Duchess was back in the room, Lynette, Catt and Alison all struck a pose, like some movie characters.
The Duchess turned around to spit tea on the Cook, and laughed.